“Upjohn Company may have put Kalamazoo on the corporate map, but a diverse team of local scientists, entrepreneurs and economic developers are keeping it there,” the CNNMoney post reads.

CNNMoney says Kalamazoo County’s 9 percent job growth between 2010-2012 is partly due to the strong connections being forged between Western Michigan University’s engineering complex and the county’s Business Technology and Research Park.

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